TOKYO — Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara, best known overseas for his groundbreaking film “Women in the Dunes” and as the first Asian director nominated for an Academy Award, died Saturday of ...

Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara began his filmmaking career with a series of short documentaries, a few of which are included on Criterion's new four-disc Teshigahara box set. Two of those, ...

Japan’s Hiroshi Teshigahara, who seemed on track for greatness after winning two Oscar nominations for “Woman in the Sands,” will be the subject of a San Sebastian Festival retrospective. Nominated ...

Japanese master Hiroshi Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) made this unguided 1984 tour of the Modernismo architect’s iconic Barcelona landmarks—those trippy, drippy structures that suggest ray-gun ...

In America, we like to think of our heroes as having one true self, a kind of pure, impermeable soul that can’t be broken no matter what the circumstance. Japanese storytelling, however, is rife with ...

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